Pat Benatar, aka "Pat
Andrzejewski" from Brooklyn, NY, rocked the world from the early 70's until the early
90's, reaching her heyday in the 80's. Albums like Crimes of Passion and Precious
Time marked her as a full-blown stadium rocker despite her diminutive stature, and she
had a number of platinum records as well as Grammy Awards for both Best Female Rock
Performance in 1980 and for the single "Fire and Ice." By 1988, however, she was
losing ground, and didn't release another album until 1991: the disastrous blues record True
Love. A critical and commercial failure, it prompted her to return to mainstream rock
on the 1993 record Gravity's Rainbow. Featuring a lot of orchestration and great
production values, it was too little too late. Both radio and record-buying public had
lost interest and the album slipped off the charts shortly after its release. It has
little to offer a Pynchon fan other than its title and flattering reference, which is sad
since, at one time, Ms Benatar was a pretty hot rocket.